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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 ib Paper 3 4F iii Solution by
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False. The rational numbers with their subspace topology from are Hausdorff. If a subset contains two distinct rationals , choose an irrational between them; intersecting the subset with and gives a separation into two nonempty relatively open sets. Thus every nonempty connected subset of is a singleton, so it is totally disconnected. Yet no rational is isolated, because every interval around it contains another rational. Therefore is not a discrete space. Hausdorffness and total disconnectedness do not imply discreteness.
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